skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you want to count? By category, I see 3 out of 4 categories that increase vehicle maintenance costs; some more than others.

By individual items: there's 6 items in narrowing, which I think is reasonable to say don't increase maintenance. There's 8 vertical deflections, which are all increasing. There's three in horizontal deflection, I'll give you roundabouts (I've argued enough about those elsewhere), so that's 2 more increasing and 1 not. For blocking, there's four, all of which are likely to increase travel distance.

So 6 + 1 = 7 vs 8 + 2 + 4 = 14. 7 out of 21 is the vast majority?

Pot holes clearly fit under vertical and horizontal deflection. Possibly block or restrict access. Deferred maintenance could be a general category of traffic calming.
Has nothing to do with privacy, google is also pushing gemini nano to the device. The sector is discovering the diminishing returns of LLMs.

With the ai cores on phones they can cover your average user use cases with a light model without the server expense.
If true, maybe. But this very point makes this whole line of argumentation unfalsifiable and in that a little limp...
> It's the typical case for Bay Area-HQ tech companies, at essentially all levels for Tier-1 companies, higher levels at Tier-2/3 companies

What are the tiers? It's close to typical for a Bay Area Google L5 according to levels.fyi.
Undocumented immigration probably doesn't have much money to compete for big city rents and raise prices for everyone.
Repulsive, how the FIRST introductory scene today was them CRUSHING perfectly usable products.

* https://twitter.com/nobi/status/1787888454849966295

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

They crushed paint, a piano, toys, and much much more.

All in the name of a convenient marketing ploy around "thinness." Seems anti-reuse to me.
don't bother. apple's marketing seems to have won on here. i made a similar point only for people to tell me that apple is the only org seriously pushing federated learning.
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My reading dropped off for years until I got a kindle. The kindle made reading way more convenient and portable. Totally changed my life.
Perhaps "goal" is the wrong word, I just mean the "in theory best performance". It doesn't matter that json is a different format, they both have the same worst case complexity for the particular example problem.
I'm hardly an expert on this, but it seems the exact same thing happened to all sorts of cities in the 2010s. Millennials wanted to live in cities.

It's possible some cities handled it better than others, but still worth pointing out.
Actually there's another job before that, I just don't list my full employment history. Before that was VP of Engineering. That's just my final title, however. I started that as a normal engineer. And then as a senior engineer before CTO.

Small companies, so not the same as being VPE or CTO at Amazon. You see those as title downgrades, but I don't. I have a lot of talent, so people want to promote me and put me in charge. I don't want to be a manager/leader currently, I want to be a strong IC.
Unix forking the universe by running IBM's free online quantum computer
> I love when really smart people spend a lot of time and effort doing completely useless things

It's not useless: they like doing it.

Any use other people might derive from the things you don't like doing (but still do) is either a happy accident, or something that benefits you indirectly (money so you can live, recognition, etc).

Doing something because you like it is the most immediate form of usefulness to the person it matters most: you.
I don't think HN understands how important model distillation still is for federated learning. Hype >> substance ITT
Navy Pays $100K to Replace EA. F/A-18 Tire, 3D Printed Repairs Cuts Cost to $300
AH could that be why their "thinnest iPad" advertisement was to crush usable piano, metronome, etc? the iPad division // department does NOT respect reuse?
I presume the sequence of events was: some developer at Apple thought it would be a great idea to port hypervisor support to iPad and their manager approves it. It gets all the way into the OS, then an exec gets wind of it and orders its removal because it allows users to subvert the App Store and Apple Rent. I doubt it’s ever coming back.

This is everything wrong with the iPad Pro in a nutshell. Fantastic hardware ruined by greed.
What about the rest of the system? The SSD, for example?

Apple likes to overcharge for storage, but the drives are _really_ good.
Author here, thanks for your interest! Surprising way to wake up in the morning. Happy to answer questions
> Also if a senior person can't in 30/45 min of talking with someone figure out the general experience level then the problem is them, really.

OK take it as read that your posturing has succeeded and we all agree that you're a brilliant interpersonal genius and the rest of us are all useless chumps. What then? The rest of us still need to interview and make hiring recommendations. Or are you suggesting that employers should fire anyone who lacks your magical talent?
The Macbook Airs with M3 have been launched 2 months ago. 2 months is really not that long ago, even in the Apple universe. For sure I'm waiting on what happens on WWDC!
There's certainly a high correlation, but I wouldn't expect anyone to be surprised. A similar thing happens with foreign films, we don't hear much about the many bad ones, or transient ones that were only so-so. If it had some popularity and sufficient supposed quality for there to either be international marketing or word-of-mouth, the odds of it being better than typical are high.

Other examples are cult-classics which survive because they're exceptionally bad.
When you're breaking out SSD speeds you're definitely getting into the "luxury" territory.

As I said in another comment:

The point isn't that the MacBook Air isn't better by some metrics than PC laptops. A Rolls-Royce is "better" by certain metrics than a Toyota, too. What makes a device luxury is if it costs substantially more than competing products that the average person would consider a valid replacement.
As hard as it might be to believe, software developers are not the “pros” Apple is choosing to appeal to with the iPad Pro.

Other jobs exist!

People with disposable income who just want to buy the nicest/most expensive thing exist!
Am I missing something or is the use of "GitHub" weird here? Are they GitHub employees? None of the creators seem associated with GitHub. They're _users_ of GitHub, nothing more.
insert meme: that's the neat part, you don't
The fact that it takes decades to master such a mundane task may mean the entire approach is wrong. The article hand-waves a lot of the complexity of "automating as much as possible."

In my opinion, the solution lies in append-only software as dependencies. Append-only means you never break an existing contract in a new version. If you need to do a traditional "breaking change" you instead add a new API, but ship all old APIs with the software. In other words - enable teams to upgrade to the latest of anything without risking breaking anything and then updating their API contracts as necessary. This creates the least friction. Of course, it's a long way for every dependency and every transitive dependency to adopt such a model.
1) smaller office complexes around the perimeter of downtowns make cheap tear downs while businesses concentrate into most desirable office space.

2) older buildings are more viable for residential conversions, if subsidized into positive economics

3) permit + incentivize residential construction - you'd be surprised how much of typical US downtowns are made up of parking lots/structures which can easily be scraped for housing.

Lastly as people do fill into downtowns, that will naturally convert into the ecosystem that serves those people - for all but capital intensive projects which will need to be spearheaded by municipalities and developers alike.
What the point of comparison? Isn't 18 hour battery and Genius Bar part of the "luxury"?

Like I say Audi is a luxury car because a Toyota costs less than half as much, and you ask "what about a Toyota with leather seats"?
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My favourite part of that story is when he shows the maths to one of the other professors they can't understand why he is "wasting time" on it.

And then he goes on to win the Nobel prize because of it..
> Why is the software engineering interview wildly different from the traditional engineering interview

I have my personal theory.

1) Top companies receive way more applications than the positions they have open. Thus they standardised around very technical interview as ways to eliminate false positives. I think these companies know this method produces several false negatives, but the ratio between those (eliminating candidates that wouldn't make it and missing on great candidates) is wide enough that it's fine. It does leads to some absurd results (such as people interviewed to maintain a library not being qualified despite being the very author) though.

2) Most of these top companies grew at such rates and hiring so aggressively from top colleges that eventually the interview was built by somewhat fresh grads for other fresh grads.

3) Many companies thought that replicating the brilliant results of these unicorns implied copying them. So you get OKR non sense or such interviews.
It coincided with opening the new light rail in the most popular nightlife areas. Hardly a laboratory setting
One thing I definitely noticed with COVID (not specific to libraries and book fairs): a lot of older volunteers stopped volunteering for good - basically "retired" now rather than later. Alone that would imply the situation fixes itself as new volunteers age in, but that's also the loss of a lot of institutional knowledge ...

Unrelated to COVID, our local library was recently taken over by a young new librarian who seemed to make it a goal to actively drive away literally all the old library community.

There was also a proposal to build a new library with a builtin homeless shelter or something ... which is exactly the opposite of helping, since the predominance of "homeless people" is a major reason patrons avoid the library already.
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You say zero technical know how, but Ballard spent some of his formative years making his way in a Japanese prison camp in China. If you believe the novel (Empire of the Sun), part of his survival was attributed to combinations of a way with language, people, and youthful endurance. But the backdrop was very much technical know how - working to obtain increasingly scarce necessities, like shoes, and observing first hand the impacts of lack thereof. So while his engineering expertise may not have been elevated from a theoretical perspective, it certainly was deeply and personally grounded in urgent, first hand, experiential concern - and all of this across three languages or more - perhaps a perfect raw humanist basis for the exploration of technology through literature?
Surely Nvidia buying a company in the space increases competition? They have sizeable resources to throw behind their new company. The number of players in the space is the same today as it was yesterday. Remember that many startups are heading towards failure and an acquisition is a soft landing.

As for M&A being universally bad, I’m not sure where to start with that? I don’t think there’s a single notable company in existence that hasn’t made successful acquisitions. The economic benefits of Shell have surely been greater since they moved on from the seashell importing business. Apple created much value with their purchase of failing NeXT.
Transparent Caching and Search Indexing for SQL Server and Azure
I read the link comments for Readyset with interest: https://shorturl.at/oCES7

Many products are trying to solve the same problem in different ways. I am noting these here because it has been hard to find this list:

Debezium (used in Redis Data Integration)
Readyset
Uber CacheFront (proprietary) - db engine customization
Hazelcast & Materialize - full databases

These were all released in the period from 2016 - 2023.

Add this to the list too!

They have a different "post-SQL" philosophy. The goal is to completely eliminate SQL, preferring to do what SQL does in a high-level language like C# for use cases that are not reports or data warehouse-related.

This is achieved in two ways:

1. Database Integration with SQL Server.
2. The PolyLang compiler generates high-level C# code, integrating data access and caching.

#2 changes the DEV workflow to point and click to generate code. Then, you can start writing business logic right away without worrying about where the data is coming from.
I expect he just took his brain. Anything else might be cause for lawsuits. I can imagine a distopic fictional future where part of the brain that stores the last few years work is erased. Similar to the tv show Severance?
Crime rates on that site appear to be from 2020.
We’re so deep in the “finding loopholes” game that it would be almost impossible to fix the system without starting from scratch.
Road Guy Rob had a livestream near a temporary overpass https://www.youtube.com/live/yjKbN8CH1-k
Lethal Injection: How We Hacked Microsoft's Healthcare Chat Bot
GPT-3.5/GPT-4 ain't the only LLMs available. A Flan-T5/T5 or Llama2/3 8B models may be finetuning for this use case and used for much cheaper.
Sort of suggest they've run out of performance upside? If they release GPT 5 and it's not way better in a fundamental sense, just has more features, I see a big change in market sentiment coming.
To play devil's advocate, it has become common to simply read a plot synopsis on something like Wikipedia rather than engage with the book/movie/show/etc. be it for lack of time or interest. This brings one up to speed with the content of the media and is often interesting enough to be worth doing while also taking 1/1000th of the investment. Such a synopsis could be reasonably condensed into a thirty second video. Obviously this is not an equivalent experience to engaging with a 300 page book, but the information conveyed is undeniably the same type of information. Having such information packed so densely, if imperfectly, was unheard of even twenty years ago.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/Chants_of_Sennaar...

Some independant studio or publishers have their fans base : Amanita Design, Playdead, Zachtronics, Devolver Digital, Annapurna Interractive are for me the folk to watch.
Two From The Vault isn't a "official live album", it's a soundboard that was shelved for decades due to the quality of the recording. I got this album on CD when I was in college (early 90s) and didn't have access to high quality taping equipment, and soundboards from the late 60s were very rare. The audio quality is absolutely excellent (I am just relistening to it now, there's only tiny background hiss, excellent clarity on all the instruments, decent vocals, and only a bit of high-volume distortion on the guitar and bass).
It's also a nice counterpoint to the original of the "From The Vault" series, One From The Vault, which was recorded years later under ideal conditions and the band had been practicing extensively.

Much has changed from the days when we had to implement balanced binary trees of tapes (analog tape copies were lossy, so you wanted to minimize the total depth of copies).
It was repulsive and disturbing to me. That piano could have been used.

* My other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292445
It takes time for reviewers to verify the proofs. The correctness may not be apparent. Here's a famous recent case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BCll...
I'm a chemist by education, so all my college friends are chemists.

Being asked a theoretical chemistry question at a job interview would be...odd.

You can be asked about your proficiency with some lab equipment, your experience with various procedures and what not.

But the very thought of being asked theoretical questions is beyond ridiculous.
Very cool... nice work.
90 minutes? At a _Dead_ concert?!

That’s enough to cover a typical Playing>Uncle John’s>Drums>Space, and probably not get all the way through the reprises. You’ve easily got another two hours of jam.
> Interviewing should be more about avoiding bad candidates than finding the best candidate.

> This guy fails coding interviews. Then he gives coding interviews, but the people he selects based on these interviews are a mixed bag. Because he's failing the interview from both directions.

Good points, but I should say that the people that didn't work out weren't always because of technical abilities. The company that had the worst success rate was fully remote, but I don't know if there's any interview process that can help with that.
I think that is very obvious. You have a browser window and a few apps open -- messaging, youtube, email, podcast etc. When you switch between apps and eventually back to your browser, you don't want the page to reload due to other apps eating up the memory. As simple as that. It's about having a good experience.
Effective commercialization of station space is indeed a positive development, but you don't really need to privatize railways to get that (even without going into the whole "privatizing in Japan is not the same as here", since large private companies and local authorities coordinate strongly in ways that we wouldn't consider acceptable in the West). Very dense European cities, like London and Paris, are getting more and more of that type of development too; and even in Tokyo, not all stations have a commercial development on top. It's mostly a function of density levels, which are sky-high in Japan.

One clear element of the Japanese system is that stations are hugely overmanned, and staff are still paid pretty good money. That means facilities are spotless, and drifters or nuisance riders are removed promptly, making the system more appealing. This is very hard to implement in the West, where the sacred fear of unionization pushes for constant cuts, both in the number of humans involved in any task and in their remuneration levels.
I like plaintext better (https://useplaintext.email/).

And emails can totally be sent both as plaintext and HTML, so that the receiver can choose! I just don't understand why so many services only send a text/html version instead of both text/html and text/plain.
Thanks for your work! I maintain the phish.in API and caught a show with Alec over ten years ago. Good times!
Benchmarks don’t tell the whole story. Obscure questions are unlikely to be in benchmarks. Large models simply encode more knowledge, which means that they are _way_ more likely to not hallucinate an answer to practical questions that are off the beaten path and that the model hasn’t seen before. Try asking your Llama 8B about some less commonly known details in some topic you know well, and then repeat the same with GPT4. Even Claude Opus hallucinates way more than GPT4, despite the claims that it matches it according to the various leaderboards and whatever.
The new document scanning functionality the camera bump helps enable is really nice. That previously required third party apps, which started out great (Swiftscan) then got greedy and turned into monthly subscriptions. I will happily enjoy Apple erasing entire categories of simple apps that turned one time purchases into monthly subscriptions.
In addition to what others have said, that's an accessibility concern. There are many people who have a physical inability to handwrite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

In some ways I'm grateful for Covid's impact on the job market because I now have many alternatives to physically drawing on a whiteboard. I can use TikZ as fast as my professors can draw, and I can put that on a monitor in a conference room. I've even used it on exams before.

I would probably struggle for reasons unrelated to my actual competence as a programmer if I was forced to use a physical whiteboard during an interview. Your comment made me appreciate that I'm graduating into a different world than 4 years ago.
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That looks great! Also, the site is excellent. I love how the animated examples change as you scroll down the site.
Which bottom of a barrel did you have to scrape to get a phone with 2GB of RAM in recent history? My OnePlus 3 from 2016 had 6GB back then and my Samsung Note 2 before that had 2GB .. in 2012.
List of current non-sovereign monarchs
If we are talking about running from remote servers, my 2018 iPad Pro with A12Z (or whatever letter) can do that almost just as well.
The difference is usually time - your actual password sitting in plaintext in your inbox vs a code that's only valid for 10min-24h. In my opinion, it's marginally more likely for a full point-in-time comprimise of an email account. A credential that has already expired is less useful than one still valid.

Granted, if an attacker can trigger a password reset and also have persistant access to an inbox, there's still an issue there, but it's at least less bad.
The article is interesting, but both methods presented are quite strange to me. The denominators are equal, the number being subtracted is smaller than one and the number being subtracted from is larger than one, so it's just instant subtraction, no method needed. If the number being subtracted were larger than one, I might have two steps (if the denominators were different and not multiples of two, three because I will have to equalize them) - subtract the fraction, then subtract the integer from the result.
Eh, probably not. It's not like web components are a big threat to react. Nor that react is any kind of a profit driver anyway.
Llama-3 70B on my local MacBook works wonderfully for these tasks.
set and rep protocol?
> Turns out that's how our (smart) ancestors "brushed": with sticks

If you're eating the diet our prehistoric ancestors ate, are at their level of physique and generally okay with their life expectancy, this is fine advice. For everyone else, there is limited evidence it helps prevent gum disease and halitosis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_floss#Evidence
How are those better than ClamAV? I am not saying they aren't but you just said the detection rates of one is terrible compared to the rest.
> It's either just going to be an even beefier Switch

This is exactly what it's going to be, though I have to ask how necessary that is.

I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon - EA Sports Syndrome or something - where companies go from making good products every few years, to marginally changing the same product and releasing it every year.
You'd think with their valuation they could have acquired a namespace with fewer syllables that didn't have negative connotations.

Interesting article btw
At this point call your government representatives and ask for new laws, or if you live someplace with laws, actual enforcement (looking at you EU).

The idea that user behavior or consumer choice will change any of this is basically discredited in practice. It will always been cat and mouse until the point that CEOs go to jail, then it will stop.
Reading, writing, discovering, voting, and convincing myself that in just one more minute I will return to my day.
Oh absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that these minor annoyances outweigh the benefits for society.

Being able to talk about issues like mental health problems is incredibly important and even nowadays in a modern country like Germany, not everyone is happy to do so. Every little bit of normalization helps.

Apart from that, I think it's better to help a few people who "didn't really need it" than to make it harder for those who really need help to get it.
I used to use aerc, though mutt is more powerful. Might switch to neomutt.
Sc-im is great, however may be really confusing sometimes.
Yeah that's a legit gripe but I wasn't really talking about the standard library which uses nice short import paths.